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https://engineering.fb.com/2022/07/25/production-engineering/its-time-to-leave-the-leap-second-in-the-past/

Lobste.rs: https://lobste.rs/s/fouuou/it_s_time_leave_leap_second_past

So I felt I had to refresh my memory about Unix/Posix time and leap seconds and found this doozy from Stack Overflow:

For what it's worth, I've never met a programmer who agrees with leap seconds. They should clearly be abolished.

I waded into a systemd debate on lobste.rs, big mistake.

Anyway it was about timers (i.e. crontab replace) and I really haven't dabbled much with them.

I don't think I'll continue commenting, just wanted to share some interesting things.

According to the docus on the Arch wiki, this is how you schedule a job for the first weekday of a month in systemd timers:

OnCalendar=Sat *-*-1..7 18:00:00

(source: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd/Timers)

This is what you have to do in crontab:

https://www.switchplane.com/editorial/2009/how-to-run-a-cron-job-on-the-first-weekday-of-the-month/

# Monday, and the 1st, 2nd or 3rd day of the month 00 10 1-3 * * [ "$(date '+\%a')" == "Mon" ] && /path/to/your/job.sh # Tues - Friday, and the 1st of the month 00 10 1 * * [ "$(date '+\%a')" == "Tue" ] && /path/to/your/job.sh 00 10 1 * * [ "$(date '+\%a')" == "Wed" ] && /path/to/your/job.sh 00 10 1 * * [ "$(date '+\%a')" == "Thu" ] && /path/to/your/job.sh 00 10 1 * * [ "$(date '+\%a')" == "Fri" ] && /path/to/your/job.sh

considered replying to https://lobste.rs/s/v6tuv7/where_s_fun_accessibility#c_vkzriy like this

You're right, the difference between a woman screwing in a lightbulb and a woman mounting a lightbulb is clear.